Hi friends!

I’m Lori Roberts, artist, author, explorer.

I’m passionate about making art that connects us to each other and the world around us. My work explores the intersection between creativity, mindfulness and gratitude - three practices that can change us in powerful ways!

One of my earliest memories is the absolute joy I felt being sprawled out on the living room floor with a new box of 64 crayons, watching Saturday morning cartoons.

My childhood dream was to work at Walt Disney Studios or maybe create a comic strip like Garfield or Calvin & Hobbes.

But as I got older I moved away from my artistic side in favor of getting a “real job.” Many cubicle jobs later, I found myself restless: something was missing. It wasn’t until my 30s that I began to revisit the creative part of myself again. And in 2014 Little Truths Studio was born.

I wanted to live a more joyful, vibrant life but what did this mean?

I knew I needed a bit more depth to my life, to infuse my already busy schedule of grocery shopping, soccer games and trips to Home Depot with some real creativity, beauty and awe.

So I started giving myself room to play.

With no expectations that I had to be good at it or that I was going to start doing it for a living. It was like a muscle that just needed to be used again, I found that my creativity was just under the surface ready for me to embrace it again.

At the heart of Little Truths Studio is a shared journey

and our core values (our little truths!) are infused into everything we make.

Kindness

I love to nurture & encourage people, and to be a mirror that reflects your own radiance. To offer a match to light your fire. To be the first in line to say HECK YEAH, YOU GOT THIS, especially for those who might not feel they have cheerleaders in their world.

Social Justice

I want to live a life in balance: seeking beauty and joy but also devoted to helping others. In the current political landscape, we are challenged to find kinship with one another. I believe through creative expression we can declare our vision of the world we want to live in.

Mindfulness

I notice the little things and this is central to our blog posts, products, and courses. Mindfulness cultivates a sense of gratitude that sustains us when we are challenged or when the world feels chaotic.

Connection

I want to cultivate a deeper sense of belonging defined by a commitment to compassion, understanding, and a connection to humanity. It’s a shared journey, “it is in the shelter of each other that the people live.”

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others? '” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Here are a few of the charitable organizations we support:

International Rescue Committee

Southern Poverty Law Center

World Food Program

Planned Parenthood

American Humanist Association

At Little Truths Studio

We wear our hearts on our sleeves.

We are unabashedly optimistic.

We kill them with kindness.

We are steadfast.

Paint Water Farm

In 2021 we moved to a 10-acre property we lovingly call Paint Water Farm.

Together with my husband Bert and our two unruly Great Pyrenees dogs Rocket and Stevie Nicks, we’re always building something, fixing something or planting something.

Want to see more of the farm?

Take a tour!

Free Garden Planner & Journal

Join my virtual garden club! Being good stewards of the earth extends to our gardens, big and small. Explore my 35-page eBook full of beautiful illustrations and thoughtful prompts.

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My Favorite Poet Is Mary Oliver

Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

-Excerpt from Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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I love all my artwork (it's kind of like picking a favorite child!) , but if I had to pick, I adore these the most...

ABCs of Life Art Print

This is our best-selling product which after going viral in 2016 has sold thousands of copies. Every sale and kind review is an affirmation of this piece, created as a love letter to my daughter.

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Poetry Will Save Us All Sticker

"Understand me, I am not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."

- Charles Bukowski

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Beauty All Around Notepad

Maybe it’s because I created this notepad (and its sister mug) in the depths of winter but man do I love a bright, colorful, cheerful garden scene with bugs and bones and underground ant tunnels every day of the year!

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